I've always said I'd stick with Livejournal until it dies, but the limit has now been reached. So, unfortunately, over the next long while I will be transferring my primary journal activities to my Dreamwidth fractured mirror ( Read more... )

Got a call and a vague yet urgent message from the property manager at quarter after 8 AM today. Spent 90 minutes fending off a panic attack trying to get hold of him to find out what was going on, because his phone line was going to the answering service until 9 am, and then he was not in the office and I had to wait for a callback ( Read more... )

The smoke alarm in this apartment does nothing.

There were actual flames bout half a foot high and everything this time. I had to beat it out with a damp dish towel. Masses of black smoke everywhere. No real damage though.

What's saddest about this is I was only trying to boil water for tea.

[Three of them]
First discovery: If I have something approximating the ingredients I can make a batch of cookies (well, a batch of cookie, singular, since this batch also amoeba'd like a previous impulse batch did) with no recipe at all in about half an hour ( Read more... )

( How to thaw a turkey on the internet. )

Okay. So, this wasn't even any kind of challenging cooking task, or an experiment, or anything involving fire at all and it still went foom ( Read more... )

I have a load of spices that I frequently use, but they're all in bulk bags and ziplock bags, so I decided to get some jars to put the spices in like I was an adult that actually had a clue what I was doing. However ( Read more... )

Today I made greek salad, but it exploded.

[Details]Did the usual, chopped up some cucumbers, green peppers, tomatoes, and no onions (because I never can tell how strong an onion is going to be when eaten raw until I'm chewing it and it's melting my head from EXTREME ONION MUSK, and every Greek salad I've ever bought has had onions made of pure misery, and ( Read more... )

Discovered today:

[Fire. Almost.]-The chicken balls from the local grocery store deli Chinese food counter (aka the second best place in town for Chinese food) can be had for 50% off in the cold section of the deli and reheated at home, but they are really oily ( Read more... )

Note to self. When cooking bratwurst, remember to poke holes in them with a fork before they've been in boiling water for fifteen-twenty-forty-dunno minutes. The resulting jets of hot grease shooting out everywhere are 1) alarming, 2) bewilderingly long-ranged, and 3) tend to burst into flames when they hit hot stove elements ( Read more... )